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Home of Hatton His Since A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Strett Gtorgetovnl Ontario PAUL J TAYLOR Publisher and General Manager PAUL DORSE Editor PHONE 2201 DAVID Manager Second Hal ftegttltnd 9 Page SECTION A THE School budget litany of waste Halton taxpayers are again facing what has become an annual tradition one of contradiction one of confrontation and one of extreme frustration Stated simply the provincial government at Queen Park echoes the long standing advice offered to consumers by the federal government in Ottawa it you re feeling the fiscal pinch tighten your belt a little more don t spend so much The contradiction arises of course when yet another level of government this time represented by the Halton board of education fails to take that advice and slaps consumers who are already sucking wind because of their tightened with yet another unjustified tax increase There are fewer students in our schools there is less cause for the elaborate educational services some enjoyed in the 1960s and 70s there is feverish public demand for spending restraint in the public sector and STILL the board increases its draft annual budget by 13 7 per cent It is barely justifiable to the parents of school age children let alone the taxpayers who no longer directly use the schools for the board to propose spending more money this year than last Its finance committee chairman Bill himself pom out several onerous areas of the budget where substantial reductions could be made Still the litany of waste goes before the trustees for approval million for 1982 There is no way around it most of the blame for rising educational costs lies with the teachers federations So strong are their unions it appears that the board must con travene its own policies hire teachers where none is needed and routinely grant them raises each and every year Regular teachers count for about million of the draft budget there another S3 million for the special education teachers ironically deemed necessary by the Ontario government Bill another million goes to employee benefits teachers and other staff alike The bureaucracy at board headquarters which spent enormous energy and money streamlining the budget absorbs million Twelve years ago the average Halton teacher was paid an By 1976 that had increased to With the latest contract it is each teacher s salary rising yearly simply because they made it through another season In fairness taxpayers must realize that they are supporting a generally more ex teaching staff with teachers boasting an average ten years experience now compared to four years experience in That same contract that made teachers among the most highly paid professionals forced the school board to agree to hire more of them Eight more teachers will be hired in this year even though a 3 3 per cent drop in enrollment should justify a decline of teachers Again the province those champions of belt tightening help justify the need for more teachers enormously by imposing special education programmes In economic hard times we feel such programmes must join professional development days and advanced psychological health services under the taxpayers microscope for special scrutiny Also the federal governments sanction of a major increase in postal rates as just one example confronts the board with a whopping per cent increase in those costs Halton now foots the bill for worth of school board stamps If consumers are truly to take Ottawa and Queen s Park s messages seriously we must trim the school board budget substantially We all want the best for our students but spending roughly on every elementary school pupil and on every secondary school student is just too much There are fewer of them every year but somehow in spite of all the belt tightening we are asked to spend about 18 per cent more on each one Tell the trustees tell the cover nment MPs and no that too much BOOK EM DAN1SO allrttdiag Rnosret held it the lull to peer lkir rnpecirte at participated In the art chiromancy ft of palm Tbc trails a was provided by Acton BallinaUd and Nana Cabs tailing Imprrwloo mat Quebec Grits should be wary of UN partys enthusiasm Ottawa Report By Stewart MacLeod Ottawa Bureau The Herald With the next Quebec election probably three years away and Premier Rene busy wrestling with enormous economic problems and Internal discontent the Erovlnce Liberals perhaps think they plenty of time to get their act together But as party memberships diaslp- and as fund raisins efforts become more anemic the Quebec Liberals be too casual as they quietly bide their time waiting to nee whether Claude Ryan will step aside his summer to allow for a Tall leadership convention Its not just the Parti they have to watch As the Quebec Grits lapse Into lethargy under Ryan austere and lofty leadership and await a now many Quebec voters in search of a comfortable political home The UN leader Jean Marc came away from the Montreal meeting almost gushing with asm By the end of this year our object ve Is members and if last weekend is any indication he salt we re going to make It s an target for a parly thai is still suffering from a touch of rigor mortis and has precious little to offer in the way of platform or policies But then what are the Liberals the voters right now The conventional wisdom scorns to be ihut Claude Ryan has to go bavins failed to win last Aprils election and having failed to Inspire the parly since then Thtrc Is outspoken dissallsfactl on within Liberal ranks and It wasn at a parly off wrote in a Montreal newspaper that Ryan is a more dishonest politician than any member of the Parti Quebccois With support like that is It any wonder that fund raisers are having trouble Clearly a growing void is be created and If the Liberals don t soon start pulling together that void will bo filled by others And It doesn have to be filled entirely A third party can easily siphon off enough votes to act as a spoiler and If the UN is able to struggle back to Its feet Its the Liberals who will bear tho weight not the Messiah there has been a Taint murmur coming from the grave of the oncemighty Union Nationals There Is si some life there Perhaps not enough to fear into the heart of Claude Ryan s Liberals but enough to warrant a moment of silence PAY WAY No one seems to have given much thought to the Union since last Apr 1 13 when under the leader si of Roch LaSaltc who has since returned to Ottawa as a Tory MP the party was burled In the election that also shattered Ryan and swept the Pari Quebecols back to power The UN was whitewashed Not one dale was elected and debts were reported close to And so Quebec became a two- party province with all the attention focused on and the heartened Claude Ryan Apart from the occasional death of a former UN member party name never reached the newspapers last weekend more than 1 Union Nationals supporters paid their own way to Montreal to talk reviving the historic party that was once the private preserve of Maurice AndwhllelOOOpeoptedont make provincial powerhouse this gathering can be dismissed out of hand particularly when there is so much disenchantment with the two major parties Obviously there are A starboard list to Bills recent cabinet shuffle Queens Park Derek Nelson Quern Park Bureau of The Herald Somehow the word Is abroad In the land that the recent cabinet shuffle here is an Indication of some kind of swing to the right by Premier Bill Davis Progressive Conservatives Responsibility for economic matters has passed to adamant right wing politicians as David Crane in the Toronto Star put III who are Ideologically opposed to Inter ventlonlst government economic policies And even though It Is nonsense this view Is continuing to gain ground Ideology may play some role In cabinet shuts but the key factor other than loyalty and being on the waiting list In the premier mind whenever he shuffles cabinet appears to be can he do the Job a subsection which means can he keep the government out trouble The theory about going right In the recent shuffle teems to centre on three cabinet minister in particular THREE RIGHT Those re Treasurer Frank Miller who t even move In the shuffle Industry Minister Walker who came from Consumer and Commercial Relations and George Taylor who has newly entered cabinet as Solicitor General Now It is true that oil three ministers are generally considered right wing fend to the degree the term means anything It usually signals who prefers privatesector action to government action But what one believes and what one docs In government arc entirely different matters Under right wing Frank Miller Treasury spending this fiscal year is soaring 16 per cent four per cent more than Inflation Critics call this cutting back Imagine what a left wing treasurer would do Actually Davis always puts a right winger In Treasury then makes llcouldbeaaublleformof torture Did Ontario rea part of oil company TOO Then there Is Walker move He replaced Larry a left wing or interventionist type when It comes to the economy This might indicate shift to the right except for one problem Grossman told a reporter a while back his job at Industry was finished and he wanted to move on He had the interventionist things such as setting up high lech research establishments Whether he wanted to move to Health is another matter Some suggest that burden is Davis punish Ing Grossman for being too overeager In seeking to flit the premier shoes But Industry plans are In place and Davis wanted Walker out of Consumer and Commercial anyway What place to move him than Industry A social Justice portfolio is not his style TAYLOR TOO As for Taylor he was Just next In lino or a cabinet post Tho whole exercise about the shift to the right Is rather ludicrous in the light of the most recent Conservative convention There Davis read restive right wingers the Riot In essence he said that If the party has been moving anywhere It Is left and It is going to keep going that way except the pace Is going to pick up from eight inches a year to gallop speed Shiftto ho right hah It be lucky to avoid falling off the political road Into the left hand ditch alongside the POETS CORNER Didnt Care Enough II you set roe abate your pillow some night ay hello 1 won be here long because Sometime yon thai night will forever Vol when re though lou wrre the warmest experience You to understand I There were limes Ihrestean to like you away from j helped by loving Sorry Y on really were you see became you were my life ByMsrlowel Dickson THIRTY YEARS decision to build schools at Georgetown Acton was made at a meeting of North high school district board Thursday in Milton Lost year a similar decision had been mad but new members had Joined Ihe board it was decided to reopen the discussion In order that all members might have a put In the decision Estimates of building two schools will be about on which a grant is paid by the government Cost of operating the two schools taking Into account the Issuing of debentures Is The board felt that in spite of a saving of about a year in operating costs then are more factors in favor of building two school In the two towns than one school In the country It Is Important to consider that one or both towns might grow to such proportion that a school In the town would be a necessity and in future a school In the country could be a white elephant Going to the movies may be good For your vision according to the American Association Looking at motion pictures under proper conditions gives valuable training to the eyes and muscles and nerves used In seeing says Elmer Soles In fact visits to the movies are recommended as an aid to correction of some visual problems Anyone who was at borne Friday night was just a stick In the mud according to Herald editor Waller He remember when there more doing In the town and district There was a play at Stewart town a mock trial at St George Church euchre at the Oddfellows Hall Juvenile hockey at the arena with the lODEdance upstairs a meeting of Credit Lodge and the Friday night dance d at the Legion Hall a pretty full evening for a small town Indications of a growing awareness of mutual old among neighbors Is shown In discussions about I re protection for taking place between town and township councils The question of fire protection in outlying districts has always been a difficult one The Georgetown volunteer brigade Is supported by Georgetown taxes and has no reason to go out of town limits but there has rarely been a case where aid was refused A scheme In which rural areas provide a fire truck and Georgetown agrees to house and man It when necessary te In the wind providing fire protection to rural residents In Glen Williams and YEARS newest industry is a structural steel fabrication plant Structural Steel commenced operations In part of the former Aire Contracting building on Armstrong Avenue Thursday However quarters are temporary and Jim Rundlc the firm vice president and general manager told the Herald his company will be building here sometime this year They ve purchased land on Armstrong Avenue Five acres of land on the Check Line and Highway 7 have been purchased by township as the site of a new municipal building The land was obtained from Charles for Georgetown share in costs of the Credit Valley Conservation Authority this year will be 1G3 This assessment Is based on cents per person with the town a population taken as to I suggest we pay the bill with pleasure said Reeve John Elliott as the motion was carried Anglican parishioners welcomed a new rector George The McMulkins moved Into the rectory Thursday a few weeks after Rev and Mrs Kenneth Richardson moved to their new home In Hamilton YEARS police force chief Bud Lowe has resigned to lake another position The commission has named Sgt George Louth as senior officer in charge pending the appointment of new chief Appointed chief In December 1967 Chief Lowe Joined the force In when It consisted of four men The Itman force ho Inherited has now increased to A small Ushaped shopping mill with a landscaped courtyard and benches will be built on Mountainvlrw Road north or the bowling alley Karl Magid of ICt Realty old council Monday night He said ho had building permit and planned a service type mall with a maximum of nine stores Parking far cars will be provided around the back of the stores Ills company has purchased the Georgetown Market from Brumac Develop ments and Mr told council he had seen a sketch suggesting a town centre or an arena In that s proposed 1972 education budget at million shows an Increase of per cent over last years costs Most of the million Increase attributed to increases In staff wages teachers are more experienced and better qualified than In previous years resulting In an Increase of about million In wages for Instructional staff This trend Is going to continue says Burlington trustee Fred More Bantam hockey teams than ever before have applied to take part In the 11th annual International Bantam Hockey Tournament to be held here March 182S The sponsoring Kinsmen have had requests however they can accommo date just teams The teams taking part are divided into four categories according to population and will play an opponent twice with total goal the deciding factor ONE YEAR Supreme Court of Ontario Judgement Wednesday rejected an application lo overturn the nomination of Fran Balnea Progreaa- Conservative candidate for The ruling handed down by Justice R Holland quashed an Injunction before courts by former party member who said Mrs Raines had been improperly nominated It was the first time In the history of Ontario anyone sought an Injunction to overturn a nomination for election Mrs of Campbellvllle said the one of about people disqualified from voting In the Feb 9 nomination meeting In which Mrs Balnea The Georgetown Agriculture Society wont have to pay 1 tor turf ruined during last year a rail at Fairgrounds Park town councillors decided Monday night Warning that the old Fair would probably fold If held responsible for minor damages caused by events Society spokesman lad argued thai the fair brings In revenue for local merchants and has contributed money to the parks upkeep In previous years The fair has never before been billed for damages he said referring to the bill originally charged the Society The swimming team proved they were the best team in the province last Friday by winning the provincial swimming championships held at Olympian Of the it schools attending the finals Georgetown first hi the open girls division dominating second place Tj Kennedy front Windsor loll points North Toronto placed third with points The boy team placed fourth with points seven behind third place and point behind first place Ridley College These total combined to give Georgetown a lone first place with point point ahead of swondplace Ridley with team point and L Kennedy with point